Month: October 2015

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Arnold Klein, dermatologist to the late Michael Jackson and other Hollywood celebrities, has died. He was 70.

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Guidelines to decide whether transgender prison inmates in California can undergo sex reassignment surgery took effect Tuesday, making it the first U.S. state to offer a regular path to such treatment. California last summer agreed to regularly provide and pay for treatments including hormones as well as surgery to alter the biological sex of its prisoners. “California has set a model for the rest of the country and ensured transgender people in prison can access life-saving care when they need it,” said Kris Hayashi, executive director of Transgender Law Center, which represents two inmates who sued the state after being denied the surgery.
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(Reuters) – U.S. health regulators on Thursday issued a warning of potential risk of serious liver injury for certain patients using AbbVie’s hepatitis C treatments, Viekira Pak and Technivie, sending the drugmaker’s shares down more than 12 percent. The Food and Drug Administration said AbbVie had identified cases of hepatic decompensation and liver failure in patients with liver cirrhosis who were taking these medicines. “Some of these events resulted in liver transplantation or death,” the agency said in a posting on its website. (Reporting by Bill Berkrot; Editing by Alan Crosby)
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While Wake maintains that “7Lbs in a week is way too much [to lose], for health reasons”, the diet is – as anticipated – causing quite a stir in the …
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DETROIT (AP) — Officials in Michigan are asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to answer questions about its oversight of state environmental regulators after elevated blood-lead levels were found in children whose Flint homes received river water.
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“I was taught the low-fat diet was the diet to follow because the cardiology … Sackner-Bernstein explained that there were unintended health …
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